Alarm money-drawer.



No. 651,008. Patented lune 5, |900. B. L. DORSEY.

ALARM MONEYDRAWE'B.

(Appliction led Oct 23, 1899.) (No Model.) 2 Shees-Shee I.

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Patented lune 5, |900.

R. L. 'DORSE^Y.

ALARM MONEY DRAWER.

(Application tiled Qct. 28, 1899..)

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l llllmmnmlmm EMM UNrrnD ASTATES PATENT OFFICEe ROBERT L. DORSEXQOF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE TUCKER A dr DORSEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ALARM MONEY-DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters :Patent N0. 651,008, dated June 5, 1 900. Application filed October 23,1899. Serial No. 734,555. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: drawer or till is pushed into place, a series of 3e it known that I, ROBERT L. DORSEY, a reversible tumblers 5, positioned under said citizen of theUnited States,residing atlndianlatch, which are adapted to be held up into apolis, in the county of Marion andState of contact therewith or not, according to the po- 55 5 Indiana, have invented certain new and usesition in which they are placed, pivoted levers ful Improvementsin Alarm l\f[oney-Dra\\'fers, (l for operating said tumblers, springs 7, by of which the following is a specification'. which said levers are normally held to their My present invention relates to that class rearmost position, pull-rods'S, terminating in of devices principally used in retail places of finger-catches 9, by which said levers may be 6o lo business, known as alarm tills or moneyoperated in the other position, and plungers drawers. 5 10,'by which the alarm mechanism is actuated. It principally consists in a means for con- The alarm mechanismalsoisin manyrespects trolling the alarm, whereby said alarm may' similar to that heretofore used, and consists be caused to operate or permitted to remain of an alarm-bell 11 and a hammer 12, carried 65 I5 inoperative at will. by'a bell-crank lever 13,which lever is mount- An alarm apparatus for tills or mone'yed-on a pivot 14. A bail-like rod 15 is posidrawers embodyingsaid invention willbe first tioned in front of tle lock and engages with fully described and the novel features theret-he bell-crank lever at or near one end and of then pointed out in the claims. is arranged in front of the plungers 10, so 7o 2o Referring to the accompanying drawings, thatv said rod serves as the means through which are made a part hereof, and on which which said plungers may actuate the bellsimilar reference characters indicate similar crank lever and bell-hammer. The rod 15 is parts, Figure1 is atop or plan viewof a money held to its retracted position by a spring 1G drawer or till provided with a combination and, as above indicated, is forcedforward 75 lock and alarm embodying my said invention, from time to time by the plungers 10. Withthe cover of the till or drawer being removed in a socket in the adjacent arm of the bellto 'show the interior; 2, a longitudinal crank lever'13 is a catch-17, mounted against vertical sectional'view of such a drawer or vaspring 18, with which an arm or projection till, showing the lock in side elevation; Fig. p on the rod 15 engages. These parts, how- 8o o 3, a sectional view of the lock and immedi-` ever, at an appropriate point in the-moveately-adjacent parts, as seen from thedot-rv nient of the device will become sufficiently ted lines 3 3 on Figs. 1 and 4, on an enlarged disengaged ;so that the catch 17 will 'escape scale; Fig. 4, a detail plan view of'su'eh porfrom the projection p suliiciently to permit tions of the lock as may be seen from the po- Athe bell-crank lever to be moved back to its 85 sition indicated by the dotted line 4 4 in Fig'. primary position. The movement -is occa- 3; Fig. 5, a detail front elevation of the lock s'ioned` by the spring 19, which acts quickly and immediately-adjacent parts asfseeli from and causes the ham mer 12 to strike the -bell the dotted line 5 5 in Fig. 3, and Fig. 6a deand give the alarm. The parts are so artail view as seen frourthe'dotted line G G in ranged, however, that the catch 17 does'not 9o 4o Fig. 5. 1 entirely pass the projection p, and thuswhen The till or drawer, generally speaking, is. the pull on the rod 15 is released said rod is or may be of any usual or desired form and permitted to travel back under the force of needs no special description. The combinathe spring 16vto its primary position, with its tion lock and alarm therein is in its general projection p behind the catch 17 ready for a 95 construction and arrangementmuch the saine new operation. Y

as those used lin money-drawers heretofore Referring now especially to Fig. 3, it will made and generally known as the Tucker be seen that each plunger 10 is provided with alarm-till. The lock consists,generallyspeaka shifter 20,which may be pushed in or pulled ing, of a suit-able casi ng 1, a pivoted latch 2,v ont, and thus occupy either of the positions roo 5o with which a stationary catch 3, secured to indicated, one by full lines and the other by the cover 4, is adapted to engage when the dotted lines. When the shifter 20 is pushed in, it comes in contact with an inclined surface on the under side of the corresponding plunger l0, raising said plunger until it is above the rod l5, so that when pulled forward it will not come in contact with said rod, and thus will not operate to ring the alarm. When the shifter is pulled out., however, the plunger l drops down into registry with said rod l5. '.lhus by merely moving such of the shifters 20 as may be desired the corresponding plungers are thrown into or out of operative relation with the rod l and the alarm-operating mechanism, and this irrespective of whether the corresponding tumblers 5 are in one position or the other. lt is necessary, however, to provide some means by which it may be rendered impossible to detect which plungers are in engagement with the bell operating mechanism and which not. l have therefore provided a separate rod 2l, similar to the rod and held back by a spring 22 of about the same tension as the spring 1G, which bar 21v is in such position that the plungers lO will come in contact therewith when the shifters are pushed into the position indicated by the full lilies in liig. 3. This bar 2l serves no other purpose, but is merely to render the true condition of the apparatus undetectable from any manipulation of the lock through the linger-pieces and attached rods and levers. As will be readily seen, therefore, locks embodying this invention may be so manipulated as either to ring the alarm when the combination upon which the lock is set is pulled, to ring the alarm when any other than the proper combination is pulled, to ring au alarm whenever the lock is pulled, whether upon the combination or not, or to ring no alarm, as the judgment or fancy of the user may dictate. In other words, either one or all or none of the pulls may be put into engagement with the alarm mechanism irrespective of whether they are or are not a part of the combination on which the lock is set.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The eombination,ina lock-and-alarm apparatus, of the tnmblers, levers for actuating said tumblers, plungers operated by said levers, Shifters whereby t-he forward ends of said plungers may be shifted to either of two different positions, a spring-retained rod lying in front of one of said positions and arranged to engage with a bell-crank lever embodying a bell-hammer, said bell-crank lever having a spring-moan ted catch by which the engagement with said rod is rendered effective, and a bell adjacent to the bell-hammer.

2. The combination, in a loek-and-alarm mechanism, of a bell,.a bell-erank lever pivoted adjacent thereto and provided with a spring-catch ou one of its arms anda bellhammer on the other, a rod arranged in front of the lock mechanism adapted to engage with the catch on the bell-crank lever, a spring for holding said rod to its normal position, a series of plungers arranged within the lock, Shifters for said plungers whereby they may be shifted into and out of posit ion to engage with said rod, the tumblers, levers for operating said tumblers and said plungers, and pulls for operating said levers.

The combination, in a lockandalarm mechanism, of tumblers, levers for operating said tumblers, plungers operated by said levers, shifters for shifting the position of the forward ends of said plungers, two rods arranged alongside the lock in the paths of the plu ngers in their two positions respectively, springs for holding said rods rearwardly with a substautially-equal tension, a connection between one of said rods and the bell-hammer of the alarm mechanism, said bell-hammer, and an appropriate bell, whereby, in operating the lock mechanism, the alarm mechanism is enabled to be operated or not as desired, while an equal resistance to the pull is always mai n tained through the two rods, one of which is idle and the other of which is ar range-d to operate the alarm, substantially as set forth.

l. The combination, in a lock-andalarm mechanism, of a suitable lock mechanism, a series of plnngers operated therefrom, a series of shifters for operating said plungers whereby their forward ends are shifted to either of two different positions, spring-held rods lying in front of the two positions which said plungers occupy, a belLhammer-actuating device, and a suitable connection between one of said rods and said bell-hainme1'actuating device, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 19th day of October, A. D. 1890.

ROBERT L. DORSEY.

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